La Trobe University has redrawn a $5 billion master plan to make its 255-hectare campus in Melbourne’s northern suburbs a “living lab” for AI, with sensors and data-collecting infrastructure embedded within buildings it will build over the next 30 years.
Victoria’s third university, established in 1964, will develop 9300 new homes on its grounds, as well as new commercial, retail, academic and research space in its University City project and aims to collect data about building, land and transport use, vice chancellor Theo Farrell said.
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